Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone dies
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Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of the punk band The Ramones, has died at age 62.
Ramone, a drummer, co-founded the Ramones in 1974 in New York along with singer Joey Ramone, bassist DeeDee Ramone and guitarist Johnny Ramone. All four band members had different last names, but took the common name Ramone. The band influenced a generation of rockers, and their hit songs "I wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop," among others, earned them an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. (AP)
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Ramone died at his home in New York after suffering from bile duct cancer. (Blabbermouth.net)
Ramone was born with the name Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest, Hungary.
"Tom Erdelyi emigrated to America in 1957 and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where he played with guitarist John Cummings – later Johnny Ramone – in Tangerine Puppets. He went on to study engineering and worked at the Record Plant (where he assisted on a 1969 Jimi Hendrix session) and other facilities." (Variety)
